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Our seafaring heritage has profoundly influenced the development of English as a living language. This book celebrates the rich legacy of marine metaphor and idiom, telling the story of how nautical terms evolved into common usage.Jeans, Peter D. is the author of 'Ship to Shore: A Dictionary of Everyday Words and Phrases Derived from the Sea' with ISBN 9780874367171 and ISBN 0874367174.
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